You can totally train yourself to laugh at that feeling. Have you seen that tiktok of a French woman who accidentally stains her teeth with cumin then spends the whole day smiling at people without realizing?

It’s a sick way of living where you can turn that agony into humor at your own expense. It’s great! I wholly recommend it, since I am an individual of constant failed seriousness and have to face the horrors of my own ineptitude every day.

Try watching It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. That’s a good way to experience it.

I say this with kindness, no one is thinking about what you’re doing while they are in public. Unless you have started a conversation with someone you might as well be furniture with eyeballs. And like sad detective said make jokes at your own expense when you do a human thing like flub a word or knock something over. To me thats extremely attractive when someone can turn an awkward moment into a reason to laugh

The other day at work my manger asked me to drop something off at a location I knew of, but they used a name for the location I had never heard. Not wanting to admit I didn’t know where that was, I figured I’d ask a coworker who’d been there longer than I have if they knew. Well, they didn’t. In fact, nobody else I asked who I thought would know had any idea either. It was like a nightmare. I had to go back to my manager and ask where it was and look like some sort of moron. We laughed about it, but goddamn, I try and look like I got it together for one minute and that’s what happens. :l